DARRIUS WAYNE ADAMS

Company A 1/22 Infantry

4th Infantry Division

DOW 05/05/1968

Age: 18
Race: Caucasian
Sex: Male
Date of Birth Jun 18, 1949
From: IVYDALE, WV
Religion: BAPTIST
Marital Status: Single

CPL - E4 - Army - Selective Service
Grade at loss: E3
Rank: Corporal
Note: Posthumous Promotion as indicated
4th Infantry Division
MOS: 11B20: Infantryman
Length of service 0 years
His tour began on Mar 21, 1968
Casualty was on May 5, 1968
In PLEIKU, SOUTH VIETNAM
Hostile, died of wounds, GROUND CASUALTY
OTHER EXPLOSIVE DEVICE
Body was recovered

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Darrius Adams was a former member of D Company 1/22 Infantry
and was Killed In Action during the Battle of Chu Moor Mountain,
approximately 25 kilometers west of Polei Krong, while serving with A Company 1/22 Infantry.

He was wounded on April 27 and evacuated to a Military Hospital where
he died from his wounds on May 5.

CPL Darrius W. Adams' decorations

Darrius is buried in the Adams Cemetery in Ivydale West Virginia.

Grave monument for Darrius Adams

Grave marker for Darrius Adams

Photos courtesy of Darrius' brother Garrett Adams.

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